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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
He, he, yes well, almost all descriptive type names of celestial objects are colloquial really, most were coined at some stage by someone, for some reason and then stuck. The story detailed under that image of the Lionel Murphy Nebula, I linked to is (scroll down) factual though 
Show enough people and I recon you'd get a result 
Mike |
I must've missed the link to that little biography, that was an interesting read, thanks for sharing (again).
And true enough, I proposed a little colloquialism in the image description/spiel on the image on Astrobin.
